“Helena is a uniquely talented trainer, communicator and influencer. We had no hesitation in asking her to run our first international team workshop in Istanbul in 2018 where she helped us to identify the soft skills needed to communicate and engage effectively with suppliers and manufacturing sites. Over just a few days she not only trained us but also inspired the team to develop completely new approach to supply chain engagement and assessment, based on understanding needs and communicating in a collaborative way with manufacturing sites. We have now piloted this new approach in over 10 countries with huge success and are continuing to work with Helena to develop further skills to help us influence supply chain managers to bring about positive change.”

“Helena has supported us with programs that aim to promote compliance of labor rights, gender equality, good labour practices, and adequate human talent management, among others. It is important to highlight the impact that her programs have had in the industry that we represent, which without any doubt has shown positive progress regarding social compliance. Her services have also strengthened our capacity, as an institution, to continue to transfer the gained knowledge, through the creation of a new training offer and the development of manuals, which have been made available to our affiliated companies, and through the training and certification of our team of instructors. For this reason, we hope to continue to have her support to promote constant improvements and social compliance in our industry.”

“The most important thing for me is this way Helena helps people think, to create a safe space for everyone attending the training to share opinions, and I can see it always that after the training, people think a lot, so they need to share it with someone else, sometimes coworkers, sometimes family and friends, sometimes people from other companies they work with. I have changed the way I communicate at work, to encourage managers and workers to think; in their workplace they are the one who know the situation best, they are the one who can change with motivation if they think there is something that needs to be changed.”

“Back several years ago we started the campaign on promotion of ILO Domestic Workers’ Convention (No. 189) in Ukraine. Our baseline was rather desperate: no representation of domestic workers who are in most cases informal workers, no legal framework stipulating the work of domestic workers, sometimes confused understanding of what domestic work is even among the expert community… The primary and urgent need consisted in major exposure of the Government and social partners to the phenomenon of domestic work, unpacking all vulnerabilities the domestic workers face and explanation of the ILO instruments that cater on decent working conditions for the growing army of domestic workers in Ukraine. Helena Perez Vazquez bravely took the challenge: she developed a tailored training course for trade unions. Helena used modern participatory training methods walking the trainees through the technical complexities of the topic. The training came out to be very interesting, engaging, and rich in substance. It was also very impactful: upon the training, the Ukrainian trade unions initiated tripartite consultations with the Government over ratification of ILO Convention No.189 and discussed provisions extending legal protection of domestic workers as by C189. These legal provisions are being finalized by the Cabinet of Ministers and will be submitted soon to the Parliament for adoption. Helena’s contribution to this progress is hard to overestimate…”

“I had the great opportunity to meet Helena Pérez when I worked for responsible global corporation that was implementing Human Right programs for their supply chain. After having actively participated in Helena´s trainings, that covered the ILO Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and Child Labor, the ‘good problems’ I started to face were that my mind couldn’t stop thinking about creative solutions to get more people engaged with the cause, and also on how I could share the learnings from the hands-on trainings. Despite the contents tend to be very theoretical, her remarkable teaching techniques are amazingly impactful, by making complex topics easier to understand, to be put into practice by businesses afterwards. If you are considering your company to make a big difference to the world and generate value to society, Helena is a MUST HAVE as a partner to your business. During my career transition, from corporate life to the consulting world, she was certainly one of the professionals that easily came-up to my mind when I was doing the list of professionals that deeply inspired me.”

“When I arrived to the ILO seminar in Panama, I didn´t think I had any problems. I considered myself to be an open-minded businesswoman, without any prejudices or discriminatory practices which damaged my company. I was so wrong! I realized that it takes vision to identify talent through the curtain of judgments which we all make, which we all carry from our cultures and stories. The seminar not only impacted me as a businesswoman, but also as a Panamanian woman.”

“Helena is the best facilitator on gender that I’ve ever met. She managed to connect with her audience in a personal way. This enabled the road to the cultural transformation which is necessary to take actions that promote Gender Equality in all areas of their lives.”

"The sessions we had with Helena made me feel much more confident in myself and more loose to train companies and business people. She has an amazing energy and she is able to transmit it to her audience. My team and myself are very grateful for the guidance that we have received from her."